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We are very happy to announce that the first prototype of the OpenFlexure Field Dissection Microscope has been documented fully so that others can build itYou can find the assembly instructions on ...

There is far more to open source hardware than designing something for yourself and dumping these files online. For a project to really be open source, people need to be able to build it, to use it...

There has been considerable progress with the microscope performance today!In a past lab note we discussed options for the microscope optics. This included two lens systems, the lens from the Raspb...

Those who are watching along with development closely will have seen that we are behind schedule on or milestones. Like all project managment we were perhaps a bit ambitious in the timeline, at tim...

As I prototype the field dissection microscope I am facing some lens related questions, and more importantly lens related design decisions.I have started off with things I had around the workshop f...

Not too much progress with the microscope over the past week, due ot other commitments on my time. It will probably be near the end of the month before I really get stuck into it again.However, as ...

We are still in the very early days of the prototype: There is no real frame. The focus mechanism needs more control over its friction We have hardly thought about optics No illumination whatsoeve...

Much of our funding for this project came from a low-cost tools for science Experiment Foundation Challenge. However, how do we design really good low cost tools for science? We are very keen on ma...

For those following along at home the design is happening live in this repository. We are adding scripts to automatically check any OpenSCAD code and to create any STLs in the cloud, so the product...